What has hapened to RSS? I have not used a feed reader in years... but I decided to write one for fun over the weekend since I wanted a way to track the one food/recipe blog I like a lot. I got it added and that is working fine: they had an rss feed. Then I started looking for other feeds that might be interesting and almost no one was doing rss feeds. Or, worse, they were using feedburner. I could not quite figure out what that was, but I also could not seem to pull out an xml file with proper rss formatting from it. Finally I started searching the source code for meta tags with rss feeds listed and did have luck there. Why bother making a feed and not linking it on your page? So weird. Funny how the landscape has changed so much in just a few years (ok, so quite a few... I think google reader was still around and popular the last time I used rss). I did eventually find a few and have been happily using my super ghetto cobbled together in an afternoon feed reader. I hate all of these blogs having tons of scripts and adds though so I also wrote a proxy that will render more or less a reader view without ever loading any scrips or styles or tags I dont want and I just have my feed reader open links as querystrings to that proxy and bingo: surfing in style.